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Artist
Joshua McCormack
12+ albums
jazzsoulbluesindiecabaret
about
Joshua McCormack’s live performances encourage you to appreciate chaos along with beauty. “There’s a time for precision,’ he states, “and there’s a time for madness.” A technically-skilled musician and vocalist, McCormack’s songs and live performances feature strategic moments of unpredictability. Joshua McCormack started playing with his parents’ keyboard around the age of 10. His keyboard experiments were also his earliest recording sessions, and he’d sit and listen to his own creations for hours, splicing bits and pieces of melodies together. He started playing guitar at age 11, practicing from the time he got home from school until he went to bed at night. The riffs of the axe gods of hair metal eventually led him to join his first metal band as a teenager. He says his real music education began when he was about 25. He spent countless nights at Chicago-area open mics mingling with a cast of characters who played sets that read like a music history lesson, ranging from Sam Cooke to Joao Gilberto to traditional gospel songs. McCormack would cover Bjork songs on an acoustic, mimic Helen Merrill on Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” and test out his original songs on a live crowd. During this time, he studied the teachings of Seth Riggs, vocal coach to Michael Jackson and Prince. He bought a Riggs course online, and practiced vocal exercises every day as he drove in his car. In 2005, he recorded his first album inside his friend’s basement studio, entitled Joshua McCormack Pr
